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Field: Computer Science Clear all

355 claims from 237 papers, showing 101–120 of 237

  1. Computer Science › Advanced Graph Theory Research

    The Connectivity of Boolean Satisfiability: Computational and Structural Dichotomies

    Gopalan, Kolaitis, Maneva and Papadimitriou · SIAM Journal on Computing · 2009

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    1. Unchecked“The diameter of components can be exponential for the PSPACE-complete cases, whereas in all other cases it is linear; thus, diameter and complexity of the connectivity problems are remarkably aligned.”
  2. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

    Random k ‐SAT: Two Moments Suffice to Cross a Sharp Threshold

    Achlioptas and Moore · SIAM Journal on Computing · 2006

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    1. Unchecked“As a corollary, we establish that the threshold for random k‐SAT is of order $\Theta(2^k)$, resolving a long‐standing open problem.”
  3. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

    Landscape analysis of constraint satisfaction problems

    Krząkała and B · Physical Review E · 2007

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    1. Unchecked“This point has a simple geometric meaning and can be in principle determined with standard Statistical Mechanical methods, thus pushing the analytic bound up to which problems are guaranteed to be easy.”
  4. Computer Science › Stochastic Gradient Optimization Techniques

    Scaling description of generalization with number of parameters in deep learning

    Geiger, Jacot, Spigler et al. · Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment · 2020

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    1. Unchecked“We rely on the so-called Neural Tangent Kernel, which connects large neural nets to kernel methods, to show that the initialization causes finite-size random fluctuations $\|f_{N}-\bar{f}_{N}\|\sim N^{-1/4}$ of the neural net output function $f_{N}$ around i…
  5. Computer Science › Computational Drug Discovery Methods

    AlphaFold2 structures guide prospective ligand discovery

    Lyu, Kapolka, Gumpper et al. · Science · 2024

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    1. Unchecked“Hit rates were high and similar for the experimental and AF2 structures, as were affinities.”
    2. Unchecked“Determination of the cryo–electron microscopy structure for one of the more potent 5-HT2A ligands from the AF2 docking revealed residue accommodations that resembled the AF2 prediction.”
  6. Computer Science › Complexity and Algorithms in Graphs

    Algebrization

    Aaronson and Wigderson · ACM Transactions on Computation Theory · 2009

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    1. Unchecked“Second, we show that almost all of the major open problems---including P versus NP, P versus RP, and NEXP versus P/poly---will require non-algebrizing techniques.”
  7. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    Discrimination-aware Network Pruning for Deep Model Compression

    Liu, Zhuang, Zhuang et al. · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2021

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    1. Unchecked“For example, on ILSVRC-12, the resultant ResNet-50 model with 30% reduction of channels even outperforms the baseline model by 0.36% in terms of Top-1 accuracy.”
    2. Unchecked“The pruned MobileNetV1 and MobileNetV2 achieve 1.93x and 1.42x inference acceleration on a mobile device, respectively, with negligible performance degradation.”
  8. Computer Science › Complexity and Algorithms in Graphs

    Nonuniform ACC Circuit Lower Bounds

    Williams · Journal of the ACM · 2014

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    1. Unchecked“NEXP, the class of languages accepted in nondeterministic exponential time, does not have nonuniform ACC circuits of polynomial size.”
  9. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

    A new look at survey propagation and its generalizations

    Maneva, Mossel and Wainwright · Journal of the ACM · 2007

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    1. Unchecked“We then show that applying belief propagation---a well-known “message-passing” technique for estimating marginal probabilities---to this family of MRFs recovers a known family of algorithms, ranging from pure survey propagation at one extreme (ρ = 1) to stan…
    2. Unchecked“To that end, we investigate the associated lattice structure, and prove a weight-preserving identity that shows how any MRF with ρ > 0 can be viewed as a “smoothed” version of the uniform distribution over satisfying assignments (ρ = 0).”
  10. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    Picking Winning Tickets Before Training by Preserving Gradient Flow

    Wang, Zhang and Grosse · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2020

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    1. Unchecked“Our method can prune 80% of the weights of a VGG-16 network on ImageNet at initialization, with only a 1.6% drop in top-1 accuracy.”
    2. Unchecked“Moreover, our method achieves significantly better performance than the baseline at extreme sparsity levels.”
  11. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

    Holistic Evaluation of Language Models

    Liang, Bommasani, Lee et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022

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    1. Unchecked“We improve this to 96.0%: now all 30 models have been densely benchmarked on the same core scenarios and metrics under standardized conditions.”
    2. Unchecked“Prior to HELM, models on average were evaluated on just 17.9% of the core HELM scenarios, with some prominent models not sharing a single scenario in common.”
  12. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    GhostNet: More Features from Cheap Operations

    Han, Wang, Tian, Guo, Xu and Xu · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2019

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    1. Unchecked“Experiments conducted on benchmarks demonstrate that the proposed Ghost module is an impressive alternative of convolution layers in baseline models, and our GhostNet can achieve higher recognition performance (e.g. $75.7\%$ top-1 accuracy) than MobileNetV3…
  13. Computer Science › Stochastic Gradient Optimization Techniques

    Deep learning generalizes because the parameter-function map is biased towards simple functions

    Valle-Pérez, Camargo and Louis · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2018

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    1. Unchecked“By exploiting recently discovered connections between DNNs and Gaussian processes to estimate the marginal likelihood, we produce relatively tight generalization PAC-Bayes error bounds which correlate well with the true error on realistic datasets such as MN…
  14. Computer Science › Cellular Automata and Applications

    Lenia: Biology of Artificial Life

    Kong and Chan · Complex Systems · 2019

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    1. Supported · 71%“More than 400 species in 18 families have been identified, many discovered via interactive evolutionary computation.”
  15. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    ThiNet: A Filter Level Pruning Method for Deep Neural Network Compression

    Luo, Wu and Lin · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2017

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    1. Unchecked“Similar experiments with ResNet-50 reveal that even for a compact network, ThiNet can also reduce more than half of the parameters and FLOPs, at the cost of roughly 1$\%$ top-5 accuracy drop.”
    2. Unchecked“We formally establish filter pruning as an optimization problem, and reveal that we need to prune filters based on statistics information computed from its next layer, not the current layer, which differentiates ThiNet from existing methods.”
  16. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    One ticket to win them all: generalizing lottery ticket initializations across datasets and optimizers

    Morcos, Yu, Paganini and Tian · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2019

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    1. Unchecked“Moreover, winning tickets generated using larger datasets consistently transferred better than those generated using smaller datasets.”
  17. Computer Science › Neural Networks and Applications

    Spectral bias and task-model alignment explain generalization in kernel regression and infinitely wide neural networks

    Canatar, Bordelon and Pehlevan · Nature Communications · 2021

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    1. Unchecked“We elucidate an inductive bias of kernel regression to explain data with "simple functions", which are identified by solving a kernel eigenfunction problem on the data distribution.”
    2. Unchecked“We show that more data may impair generalization when noisy or not expressible by the kernel, leading to non-monotonic learning curves with possibly many peaks.”
  18. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

    Going after the k-SAT threshold

    Coja-Oghlan and Panagiotou · ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC) · 2013

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    1. Unchecked“This technique enables us to compute the $k$-SAT threshold up to an additive $\ln2-\frac12+O(1/k)\approx 0.19$.”
  19. Computer Science › Medical Image Segmentation Techniques

    U-Net: Convolutional Networks for Biomedical Image Segmentation

    Ronneberger, Philipp and Brox · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2015

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    1. Unchecked“Segmentation of a 512x512 image takes less than a second on a recent GPU.”
    2. Unchecked“We show that such a network can be trained end-to-end from very few images and outperforms the prior best method (a sliding-window convolutional network) on the ISBI challenge for segmentation of neuronal structures in electron microscopic stacks.”
    3. Unchecked“Using the same network trained on transmitted light microscopy images (phase contrast and DIC) we won the ISBI cell tracking challenge 2015 in these categories by a large margin.”
  20. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    MetaPruning: Meta Learning for Automatic Neural Network Channel Pruning

    Liu, Mu, Zhang et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2019

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    1. Unchecked“Compared to the state-of-the-art pruning methods, we have demonstrated superior performances on MobileNet V1/V2 and ResNet.”
    2. Unchecked“The search is highly efficient because the weights are directly generated by the trained PruningNet and we do not need any finetuning at search time.”

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